Auspicious beginning: 06/20/2016

(A Pantoum for Arlo Alexander Patterson)

Hello Arlo, hello world you see;

hello earth wind and fire, hello air;

the summer solstice beckoned your way--  

the strawberry moon blessed your day         

Hello earth wind and fire, hello air,

Aquarian, changeling, adventurer be;

the strawberry moon blessed your path,

father of earth, son of the sea.

Aquarian, changeling, adventurer be

the thunderbolt and wounded healer he,

father of earth, son of the sea,

rest now, then wake, discover this hour

Be wounded healer and thunderbolt power 

the strawberry moon blessed your birthday--

rest now, then wake, discovery this hour.

Hello Arlo, hello world you see.

(so far, everything except Gemini)

Duality of existence

I know a lot of things now

and now that I know this

I know nothing.

Once I had a lot of things

and now I have less

I need nothing.

Sometimes I am here.

Sometimes I am not.

Well, I am here,

but not engaged in being here.

To move between the two

requires motivation.

To be motivated

requires belief in significance.

Shoal

I love to take my canoe to the leviathan

to glide over its dangerous hulking mass

just inches below the cedar canoe keel

It is an anticipatory thrill as great thunder

my stomach dropping, no breath, tingling neck

approach and avoidance in one